From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
nbd@openwrt.org, hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem v9
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:12:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110520081226.0787e2dd@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110519180558.GJ3702@shadowen.org>
On Thu, 19 May 2011 19:05:58 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:44:54PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> > Forgot to attach the patch?
>
> Yep, should be in your inbox now.
>
> > >
> > > With this in place I have been able to boot a Natty release live CD
> > > image, and upgrade it in place to the latest and greatest of everything.
> > > Very nice. Thanks for your work continuing work on overlayfs. It is
> > > starting to look good enough to merge.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> >
> > I'd be happier if the LSM module were fixed not to peek inside the inode
> > structure. Some filesystems (notably network ones) do not guarantee i_*
> > to be up-to-date, relying on these is not a good idea.
>
> I wonder what what the official way to get ownership information for an
> inode is if we cannot rely on those. I am happy to get the Yama LSM
> fixed up if they are doing something wrong.
>
> -apw
inode->getattr(...., &kstat);
look at kstat.uid, kstat.gid.
??
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 12:30 [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem v9 Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 12:30 ` [PATCH 1/7] tmpfs: implement generic xattr support Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 12:30 ` [PATCH 2/7] vfs: add i_op->open() Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 12:30 ` [PATCH 3/7] vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 12:30 ` [PATCH 4/7] vfs: introduce clone_private_mount() Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 12:30 ` [PATCH 5/7] overlay filesystem Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 12:30 ` [PATCH 6/7] overlayfs: add statfs support Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 12:30 ` [PATCH 7/7] overlay: overlay filesystem documentation Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 15:13 ` [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem v9 Michal Suchanek
2011-05-19 16:37 ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-05-19 17:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-19 18:05 ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-05-19 22:12 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-05-20 8:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-20 12:43 ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-05-19 19:04 ` John Stoffel
2011-05-19 20:30 ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-05-19 20:34 ` John Stoffel
2011-05-19 18:04 ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-05-20 8:56 ` Michal Suchanek
[not found] ` <103d3f78e2d3478d8bb93f5dda3a4a08@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2011-05-20 5:39 ` [PATCH 5/7] overlay filesystem (inode.c bad error path) Erez Zadok
2011-05-20 5:55 ` Erez Zadok
2011-05-20 14:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <efad20cd4c664cd78e153b0fda2de605@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2011-05-21 5:15 ` Erez Zadok
2011-05-20 8:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-20 14:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <7dcd9c4e62864bc6aae66f5a4e3f3752@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2011-05-21 4:26 ` Erez Zadok
2011-05-21 4:26 ` Erez Zadok
2011-05-23 8:57 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <b11ac28b818740a8b3f619e756735e41@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2011-05-24 1:02 ` Erez Zadok
2011-05-20 5:58 ` [PATCH 5/7] overlay filesystem (negative dentries cause OOPS on NULL inode) Erez Zadok
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